Sunday, August 20, 2017

Dear God, I feel you lifting me up. I am buoyed by your love. I spend so much time and energy reflecting on my shortcomings. And yet you love me as your child. Let me cast aside my self-recrimination, my self-administered punishment, my catalog of defects. Let me hold my head up and glide through this world, secure in the knowledge of your love for me.

I honestly seek improvement. Faith and experience tell me this is sufficient, if I but act on this desire. I act as if I am that improved person whom you would have me be, and my inner life becomes a reflection of that.